HP has also announced its own i7-powered Chromeboxes. Here’s the ASUS Chromebox, due to go on sale next month, measuring just five inches square: Today, that’s all changed: there are now Chromeboxes with a lot more power.īoth Asus and HP have announced i7-powered machines that make the latest Mac mini look positively porky. Early Chrome PCs were extremely low-powered devices effectively able to do little more than run a web-browser, with all the apps themselves sitting on the web. Hard drives also used to be a significant size-hog, but today’s SSDs are just a bunch of slim chips on a circuit-board. So just how small could Apple make the machine today?įortunately, we don’t need to speculate, thanks to a new generation of Chromeboxes. Today, of course, optical drives are but a memory. The optical drive set a minimum footprint for the machine. Up until 2010, there was a good reason the box couldn’t get much smaller: The current Mac mini is thinner, but actually larger than the original at 7.7 inches square, thanks to squeezing the power supply also inside the casing. Today, however, it looks rather less impressive …
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The typical Windows desktop box of that era looked like this:Ī system unit that measured just 6.5 inches square and only 2-inches thick was an incredible feat of engineering.
Because those people already owned monitors, keyboards and other peripherals, selling them just the computer itself would enable them to switch to Mac for far less than the cost of buying an iMac. The original aim of the machine was to convert owners of desktop Windows machines. When it first launched in 2005, the Mac mini was almost unimaginably small.
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